From what I've read about Delpaso they are worth avoiding anyway. You can refuse a hire company's extra insurance without having any of your own excess insurance, which we had always done before we started using a separate policy as they are just rip-off prices. It seems big business now, to charge ...

If the car hire company start to mention/try to sell you their own insurance I just show them the excess insurance policy and say I am covered. I tend to use Hertz in the UK and they have never questioned it . I have used other companies in the past and they've accepted the fact I have the insurance...

Presumably you're talking about having third party liability for your renters etc .... try asking Liberty Seguros in Nerja. I use them for home and car and they are very helpful. They have an office in Plaza España in the town centre.

The Intelsat 907 is the simplest way if you don't want to watch via the internet and you want to just watch as usual via your TV. I get all the BBC channels, including radio, ITV , CH4, CH5 and Film4+1. You can use an existing Sky dish but it has to be re-aligned and you also need a digital box to p...

According to the Telegraph article they only have 9 planes, so if there's any problems you'd be left stranded as they don't have a huge fleet like Ryanair or Easyjet (nearer to 700 planes between them) where they can supply a substitute. That was a problem even with Monarch as, when one of their pla...

No point in getting a cat of your own as we have 4 (2 male 2 female all neutered) and there's a tomcat that keeps calling by ours and p1ssing everywhere and fighting with our cats. I would dearly love to discourage this particular cat from coming through our garden but have yet to find any way of de...

Enrique, 4th entry is static.ccgg.telefonica.net, then next few entries time out then it shows staticip.rima-tde.net which also seems to be something to do with Telefonica? I still have a problem with pages loading very slowly. I have cleared a lot of stuff off this PC now and at least I have got th...

These are a few of the ones listed as available: Kassel CORSIN.DE Salzgitter IT Ohlendorf Weimar Thueringer Netkom GmbH Frankfurt Interoute VDC Hagen Spacken.net Frankfurt LeaseWeb Frankfurt Vodafone DE Frankfurt 23media GmbH That's never happened before. I put Malaga into the search box and it foun...

When doing a speedtest using speedtest.net why are the only servers shown as available in Germany? Is it because I have SmartyDNS installed in my router? (May explain why an earlier test had a ping of 495 and a download speed of 0.45mbs though :lolno:) I did have problems before but it's been all fi...

The weather in winter can be difficult to predict. It may be a mild one or it can be horrendous. The west and northern coasts gets hit by a lot of rain and storms, so if it isn't snowing it could be rain and wind. This winter has been particularly cold with a lot of snow in the northern half of Spai...

Flexo, we have a grey water system on our finca and it's surprising how much water we collect and recycle. I do agree that everyone should do it and be more mindful of how and when we turn the taps on and why. Our first house didn't have any water supply and we collected every drop off the roof and...

That's right, unlike the UK you cannot buy anything like that from anywhere other than a farmacia. I find the Nerja ones can be expensive (perhaps as it's a more touristy area??) and they always try to sell you the most pricey ones. I usually ask if they have a cheaper variety. (I'm sure I have boug...

... is there a grant to plant these trees as it must cost a fortune to set up!) We've often wondered that. A few years ago they planted "Chocolate" Trees (Carob) all over the mountain sides around us, thousands and thousands of them.....they are all dead now. What did that cost? Another n...

As our water is from the agricultural supply I wouldn't like it to become salty. There is no other option for water so we couldn't live here if our supply dried up. I think ours comes from the mountains, so everybody says, so hopefully they won't become saline. They continue to plant mangoes here an...

I see that my Samsung TV has had an update and can now allow me to watch programmes from the start, a very useful feature. BBC has always given me the option on live TV to watch from the start, but the other channel apps don't have the live option at all. Perhaps it depends on the make of the TV. B...